Mr. Maurice Buckley:

I am sure that figure is correct. It rings true, yes. What happened is this contract was anticipated for maintenance works in our buildings, only in Dublin in the beginning. After the recommendations of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General are fully in place, and most of them are already, we are extending this mode of working across the country. It is intended for small maintenance projects. It has proved so effective. Situations arise, and this is the nature of the OPW's work and it is what we are there for. When there is an emergency, be it an emergency that affects the usability of a building or a Government crisis like Brexit that has to be dealt with, we have to find the most cost-effective way to deal with that, and sometimes it has to be done very quickly. It was never the intention to use this contract like that, but the mechanisms of the contract are so good and give us such good cost control that it was a very good way to look after the interests of the taxpayer in terms of value for money. Unfortunately, as a consequence of that, we were exceeding the procurement-----